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Chris Christie can bite me!
What Republicans don’t get about the minimum wageRepublicans don’t like talking about the minimum wage, which is only natural given that their position is one that is extremely unpopular (raising the minimum to $10.10 an hour, the level advocated by Democrats, regularly polls at 70 percent or more). But while their political problem on the issue stems from their policy stance, the way they do talk about it, when they absolutely have to, makes the problem worse. Witness what New Jersey governor and likely presidential candidate Chris Christie now has to say about it:
“I’m tired of hearing about the minimum wage,” Christie said in a keynote speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “I really am. I don’t think there’s a mother or a father sitting around the kitchen table tonight in America saying, ‘You know, honey, if our son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage, my God, all of our dreams would be realized.’ “
“Is that what parents aspire to for our children?” Christie continued, “They aspire to a greater, growing America, where their children have the ability to make much more money and have much great success than they have, and that’s not about a higher minimum wage.”
That is some weird logic. We need to keep the minimum wage low, because everybody wants to make a lot more than minimum wage, and an increase won’t make anyone’s dreams come true. It’s kind of like saying to a hungry person: “I could give you a sandwich, but I know what you’d really love is an eight-course meal at the Four Seasons. So no sandwich.” Or saying to the public: “It would be great if we could magically eliminate 100 percent of crime, but since we can’t, we’re not going to bother to have a police force.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/10/22/what-republicans-dont-get-about-the-minimum-wage/
Fuck you GOP!
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He was just here in Maryland campaigning for Hogan for governor.
My thoughts when he showed up are the same as yours - "Chris Christie can bite me!' " Fuck you GOP!"
Most of us here feel the same way!
GOTV 2014! 
Kath
I wish they would all just fuck off and get out of the way. Their ideals are soooooo way-old and outdated.
They are greedy, racist, sexist, corporate idiots who don't realize that their time is over! They are on their last gasp.
Any woman who votes Republican in 2014 is out of her mind!
GOTV 2014.
Peace, Cha! 
from the middle class and poorer folk to enrich their campaign donor$$$$$$$$.
Peace Backatcha, Kath!
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is definitely not the same as many Americans.With a higher minimum wage, workers can get the chance to make more. As it is, they are kept near homeless and without means to make long terms plans due to the schedule they have to work under.
Really, with no advantage to work, there's always a life in organized crime. Which is where Christie gets his money, working for the Koch brothers. So he is advocating that for them if civil society gives no legitimate way to work oneself out of poverty.
Why is the third world like it is, with people going into gangs of all kinds, cartels, loose armies that rape and pillage, except for the fast buck as legal work doesn't pay enough to live on or there is no hope at all?
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out where Christie wants to lead the poor. He is a lackey for the Koch's who believe in slavery when all is said and done. Obama and the Democrats are stemming back the tidal wave unleashed by them. But they can't do it alone.
Christie is greasing the public mind to accept the Koch Libertarian platform:
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, people who support Christie better be sure they are safe from all aspects of what he is selling. They feel superior to the poor, but have they learned where he got the ideas and how far he will go to please his masters?
Media gives him plenty of air time because their owners support the same agenda. They just don't say it openly, but the Tea Party is getting more honest about their intentions. They believe in that agenda, all of it.
Look at the list, look at what they have proposed, look at the GOP platform. Look at what they have done in Congress and the states. This must be faced.
Another explanation here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Right wing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
dent in their budget.
Christie, wife earned significantly more last year than in 2012 -
"Christie and his wife earned a combined $698,838, up from $479,000 in 2012 and closer to the nearly $658,000 they earned in 2011. The jump in income comes from the $75,954 Mary Pat Christie reported earning from part-time work as an executive at Angelo Gordon & Co, an investment management firm. She reported an additional $34,698 in income from Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, where she worked as a bond trader before going to Angelo Gordon in September 2012."
http://www.northjersey.com/news/christie-wife-earned-significantly-more-last-year-than-in-2012-1.1112107#sthash.OzNsnFKM.dpuf
Thank you for the info, fresh!
I mean, he might not stop at just one bite. 
